| Description |
xxxii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Brief history of media accuracy and errors -- Mass media: born of a big lie -- Regrets, more than a few -- Truth about media errors --Common errors --Unreliable sources and malicious reporters -- Obiticide: death by media -- Mistakes and the mistaken -- Errors heard round the world -- Trouble with corrections --Disappearance of newspaper proofreading -- Birth (and slow death) of magazine fact checking -- Watching the detectives: the rise of external fact checking -- Big newspaper in the sky |
| Notes |
"Winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism"--Cover |
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"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-357) and index |
| Subject |
Journalistic errors.
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Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Corrections.
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| Author |
Jarvis, Jeff, 1954-
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| ISBN |
1402765649 (paperback) |
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9781402765643 (paperback) |
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